DH chose daughters name, opinions please

Whatever name you put on here some will love and some will hate.

My penny's worth is that the name is fine. Better without the hyphen and assuming no middle name. Also better if you haven't double barrelled your surnames too as Mackenzie-Mae Johnson-Thompson would be a bit much.

horsesheep I think the name is unusual enough to be identifying...and the fact that you've stated it's a slight variation on the spelling gives you away even more.

It's not my cup of tea but I think Mckenzie and May are nice names individually, it's the hyphenated May bit I don't like.

You can always drop that bit either by changing it officially- or unofficially by just by not writing it on things like nursery and school application forms.

They're not so bad when you check out the links above

www.babycenter.com/baby-names-mackenzie-5255.htm

www.babynamewizard.com/baby-name/girl/may

I know a lovely teenage MacKenzie, known as Kenzi.

I also know a teen who was named after her grandmother, with a classic first name, and often says she wishes her parents had named her MacKenzie, which was her grandmother's maiden name, instead.

As someone has already said, J.K. Rowling's younger daughter is a MacKenzie.

Another vote for just dropping the hyphen. Even if you drop it by deed poll it wouldn't seem as significant as a complete name change, most people wouldn't even notice! Hopefully such a minor change wouldn't hurt your husband's feeling either. Has he said if he would be happy for some kind of change?
I love Mackenzie or Kenzie, and Mackenzie May Whatever sounds nice as a full name. I totally get the problem you have with the hyphen.
I can't get over the association I have with a mother of a girl called Name-Mae at a school I used to work at and would OTT come storming in to complain if she heard anyone had left off the -Mae!

I’m sorry the name was registered without your approval. That would have really pissed me off, too. It’s an important decision.

Just as an aside, any name with a ‘mac’ prefix means ‘son of’.

Mackenzie isn't bad at all. It has a certain ring to it.

You can easily get rid of the hyphen - May is a nice middle name - or change May to something else altogether.
Fay/Faith, Joy, and Hope spring to mind, but other names would work equally nicely: Grace, Rose, Elizabeth, Catherine, Eleanor, Olivia...

Congratulations on your baby girl and well done

I like Mackenzie. I like May. I don't like hyphenated names.

I know several girls with May or Leigh or Rae added but none of them are actually called by the bit after the hyphen.

I think most people will just call her Mackenzie unless you insist otherwise.

I like Kenzie as a nickname.

I actually like the name Mackenzie. I never had a chavvy association with it either; I grew up on a council estate despite having fairly well off parents and the only Mackenzie I ever new I met at the posh riding school I went to. I always thought it was a really cool name :)

Hate May as a middle/hyphenated name though

It's a lovely name - without the May bit added to it. I'd definitely drop that.

I really can't believe a parent would go and register a baby without discussing and informing the other parent of the name they had chosen. It is absolutely insane, regardless of how ill you were. I could never forgive my husband for that.

And I hate to be mean, but MacKenzie means 'son of', so it's not even a girls name - it's a surname, but would be suitable for a boy.
I like the name May, but don't like the trend of adding it to first names.

Do you want honest opinions? In which case, I'm afraid I don't like the name.

@RiverTam This is a public Internet forum. The title of this particular post is 'DH chose daughter's name, opinions please.' I gave my opinion on the name only and NOT the child. It's an absolutely hideous name in my opinion - you might think otherwise, and that's also fine. There are clearly some who like the name, I personally, do not.

I don't often @ people, but @MrsPworkingmummy what a completely twattish thing to say. The baby is 17 months old. This is her name.

And, no, 'the OP asked for opinions' doesn't cut it.

It's fine , you could call her Kenzie for a nickname x

It's awful sorry.

Separately they're ok but hyphenating with May is just so naff. And over done.

I too am in Chambers and we have a lovely diverse tenant profile (plus names!).

And also, I promise (from a profession that is notoriously conservative) if someone has the skills, a name will not disadvantage them.

OP - feel free to message me and I'll happily tell you all about the junior members of my chambers with wonderful, normal, names.

@L0ki, @Cbeebies and

MyLearnedFriend cheers to your comment.
You’re so right, people forget that they are talking to a real life person about their real life daughter. A little tact goes a long way.

I said above I didn’t really like the name but so what and go right ahead and keep it and ignore naysayers.
Interestingly I have come to quite like it (without the -May though). Thanks for helping this okdnstick in the mud (not really not generally) think again.

@MyLearnedFriend that’s a really lovely message

It amazes me sometimes that people forget there’s an actual person behind the post, especially in this case where it’s pretty obvious the OP has gone through a very traumatic experience.